18 October 2021
Responding to a recent article in The Times about the latest NHS Digital data detailing the number of consultations delivered by GPs:
14 October 2021
Please read on for our response to today’s announcement from NHS England on GP access
14 October 2021
College Chair Martin Marshall addressed members at the RCGP conference in Liverpool this morning.
11 October 2021
Read Martin Marshall’s opinion piece published in today’s Daily Express, defending the profession against the continuing media criticism about access to face to face appointments, and explaining the urgent need for government to support an understaffed and exceptionally overworked general practice.
11 October 2021
Responding to research commissioned by the Lib Dems and covered in the Daily Mail on increasing patient-GP ratios, with the average GP now responsible for the care of 2,000 patients
11 October 2021
The College has hit back in response to media coverage in the Telegraph and The Times on GPs’ working hours based on the latest GP worklife survey:
09 October 2021
Read the College’s riposte to a Daily Mail article linking a rise in patients attending A&E with access to GP face to face appointments:
08 October 2021
In response to the intense media scrutiny that general practice has been subject to recently regarding face to face appointments, we have written a letter to the Daily Record to address such unfair and inaccurate claims. This letter has been issued in response to an article published Monday 4 October, for which the College has refuted.
07 October 2021
The Royal College of General Practitioners, which represents over 1500 GPs across Northern Ireland, is proud to announce that Greenway Practice has been awarded Northern Ireland GP Practice of the Year 2021.
06 October 2021
Speaking at the launch, Dr Mair Hopkin, Joint-Chair of RCGP Cymru Wales said: